core_availability\capability_checker Class Reference

Used while evaluating conditions in bulk. More...

Public Member Functions
	__construct (\context $context)
	Constructs for given context.
	get_users_by_capability ($capability)
	Gets users on course who have the specified capability.

Protected Attributes
array	$cache = array()
	Associative array of capability => result.
context	$context
	Course or module context.

Detailed Description

Used while evaluating conditions in bulk.

This object caches get_users_by_capability results in case they are needed by multiple conditions.

Copyright

2014 The Open University

License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

__construct()

core_availability\capability_checker::__construct

(

\context

$context

)

Constructs for given context.

Parameters

context

$context

Context

Member Function Documentation

get_users_by_capability()

core_availability\capability_checker::get_users_by_capability

(

$capability

)

Gets users on course who have the specified capability.

Returns an array of user objects which only contain the 'id' field. If the same capability has already been checked (e.g. by another condition) then a cached result will be used.

More fields are not necessary because this code is only used to filter users from an existing list.

Parameters

string

$capability

Required capability

Return values

array

Associative array of user id => objects containing only id

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• availability/classes/capability_checker.php